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SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated…

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Recent Reviews

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7 out of 10
January 09, 2024
Incentivized
IT WAS A GOOD SOFTWARE VERY EASY TO USE AND ACCEESS. WE USED TO ULOAD OUR CLOUD DOCS ON THE web and download it later from cloud, comuting …
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Popular Features

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  • KPIs (261)
    8.3
    83%
  • Management reporting (265)
    8.3
    83%
  • Personalized dashboards (270)
    8.2
    82%
  • Color-coded scorecards (255)
    8.1
    81%

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Pricing

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SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence

$36.00

Cloud
per month per user

SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning

Price upon request

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sap.com/products/cloud…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $36 per month per user
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.9
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.9
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.8
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.2
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

7.8
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.6
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

8.2
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

7.6
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning processes enterprise-wide to help make decisions without doubt.

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SAP Analytics Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported LanguagesCzech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Frequently Asked Questions

SAP Analytics Cloud starts at $36.

Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Analytics Platform are common alternatives for SAP Analytics Cloud.

Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of SAP Analytics Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As the platform for user created stories and dashboards. In part replacing the old Java portal
  • Visualizations
  • BW Integration
  • Data wrangling, in particular on BW Live connections
  • Possibility to reduce white space and make the layouts more compact
  • Clearly show how the datasources are used and linked to each chart
User created dashboards where the data is readily available.
Deep stories where a broad data source is explored and visualized in many different layouts.\
November 15, 2023

Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use SAC as Reporting tools, which help us collection information in one platform
  • Cloud platform
  • Integrarted with SAP
  • Planning function
  • Story
  • Parameter value from Query
  • Planning
New data model with multiple key figures
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP is used to foster standard CDS from S/4HANA, provide insights out of such data, and import data into SAP to model it in accordance with business requirements—no insights into the data naturally from SAP. There is no reporting tool at all for business insights, considering the SAP landscape. Scope: a global tool for regional and global stories/insights.
  • Real time reading out of your data.
  • Data modeling made easy.
  • Planning model made easier for FP&A.
  • Accessibility.
  • Performance
  • Integration with other SAP tools, like BPC, ARIBA, etc.
The data modeling framework is well-rounded. Performance is always challenging.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Analytics use cases within Finance systems
  • Visual dashboarding
  • Analytics
  • Self service
  • Segregation of duties
  • SoX compliance
  • Performance at high scale
Enterprise reporting is ok
operational analuytics is questionable
November 14, 2023

SAC Beauty

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Simulate core business scenarios for better business outcomes and generate plan from predictions automatically to drive management decisions with good data by identifying ahead shortages and delays as well as their root causes before they're picked. <br><br>Also enable cross process analytics and simplify access to key operational insights with self service.
  • Remove wasted efforts and inventory
  • Understand current lead times
  • Streamline the manual process
  • Extending the solution beyond SAP platform to the 3rd party solutions connected with SAP
  • Enrich the solution with a feature that identifies unexpected challenges
  • Help in addressing post SAP migration issues from ECC to S/4HANA.
Before or during migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAC for reporting frontend from BW and HANA native data.<br>Shortly we will start with planning prototype.
  • connect to BW
  • supports self service
  • supports authorizations
  • customizing applications (like Lumira)
  • limited publications
Good for data self service.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my area, we use it for Financial Compliance and Access Control Dashboards.
The pain points we addressed is the limited reporting capabilities from SAP GRC 12.0
  • Nice visuals
  • Good performance
  • Dashboards and reports
  • Authorization concept
  • Access Management
November 14, 2023

SAC review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAC is used to bring reporting flexibility to key users and planning capabilities
  • Responsive reporting
  • User friendly interface
  • Planning
  • application design
SAC is suited for responsive reporting
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is used as the BI tool. it helps the organisation to have follow up dasboard : financial, purchasing, sales....
  • concatenate information
  • easy to create dashboards
  • look and feel
  • user path
  • performance
  • technical handover for end users to create their own reports is difficult
SAC is really helpbul to create kpis dasboards with high level review.
it is less accurate to do a detailed follow up and to deep dive into data to analyse the kpi
November 12, 2023

Ease of Doing Business

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it mainly in Fp&A area where we are also using BTP. SAP Analytics Cloud, we are trying to use the Planning features.
  • Connecting back end data with Live and other connections options
  • Creating graphs with explanation
  • Using Live link in MS 365 specially in outlook and Power Point
  • Enabling Alerting features
  • Sending email alerts to Higher management so that they can login when there is a need to login
  • Some more graphics features
Converting business Objects reports to SAP Analytics Cloud
Connecting existing Universe and Webi reports and create the KPIs
Able to connect non-SAP areas to build different Dashboards.
November 10, 2023

Good teaching tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to teach our undergraduate students, under the University Alliance program. A great learning tool! Students learn from the real world system. The SAP Analytics Cloud date also helps students understand the complicated business interrelated relationship in addition to the data, preparing them ready to the real business world!
  • Visualization
  • Data in different business function
  • Real time data
  • None
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud has helped us to get the information for decision making faster and and with rich display. In the past, the IT team had to get all the data for reporting, now the end users are enabled to get and present their data themselves. So we have saved time, effort, support and empowered our users.
  • Nice presentations, Dashboards
  • Live Data Models
  • Merge multiple models
  • Live connections to other sources then SAP
  • When adding a new measure in CDS consumption view the SAP Analytics Cloud model gets disrupted. So you can only add a measure at the end
  • Connections to SQL, MySQL live
It’s a pretty nice solution for SAP exporting. I do think SAP could improve by enabling non-SAP sources connections, live ones. This could bring new customers.
Syed Fahad Hussain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using SAP Analytics Cloud for planning and analytics and its help a lot for strategic move and real insight based on SAP master data. It helps us with data exploration and agile data visualization which support sales insight and planning for the next move. This is a complete business-centric solution where our company develops a sales forecast analytics catalog.
  • Rapid result with Data forecast
  • Rich Functionality for users to design dashboard according business requirement
  • Integration with SAP S4 hana
  • Easier for integration area
Well in our organization SAP Analytics Cloud help us on supply chain planning dashboard and sales dashboard where we have all data of Wearhouse and supply chain forecast on our SAP Analytics Cloud Dashboards. Managment will review all data insight from dashboard
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud really helps in my organization because it allows us to increase collaboration across all employees. It also allows us to generate plans automatically through the cloud. It helps us be more proactive and transition rapidly from different analytics throughout the company. I highly recommend this program for any business needs for planning and analysis.
  • planning
  • analytics
  • cloud based system
  • nothing
SAP Analytics Cloud is very well suited when it comes to planning and analysis and I highly recommend it for that purpose. I don't think it should be considered less appropriate for any situation. I think it's a fantastic tool for all aspects of business regardless of what that business is.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is provided as a comprehensive SaaS-based package. Predictive analytics, budgeting, and data visualization requirements are all addressed.
  • All in one solution for saas base work.
  • Easy to understand and work with this tool.
  • Sap need to improve their dashboard.
  • other then that i don't feel there is anything i would like to improve.
Improves dashboard performance (in some conditions) and usability. The optimized story experience is divided into two modes: design and view (optimized view mode, or OVM).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Turnover dashboards for HR, headcount reporting for HR
  • drill down to employee level could be better
  • data validation with SuccessFactors is not always accurate
It's great when reporting within SuccessFactors is not user friendly
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ever since 2019 as Assistance Coordinator, I have using SAP Analytics Cloud at workplace to automate workflow. I am currently relying on SAC since it is the main backbone tool for data modeling, preparation and visualization.
  • Data exploration across multi-cloud and on-premises sources.
  • No coding nor manual process is involved during data visualization.
  • Offers self-service data modeling tools.
  • Pre-integrates services accelerated implementation.
  • It is only available as cloud based and lack mobile apps for iOS and Android systems.
Making business decisions is a bit complex, mainly when doing it manually. SAC gives me the ability to personalize and compose analytics applications which help me move faster from insights to actions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I thought this was a fantastic resource since it can be modified to fit any situation. Business intelligence, predictive analytics, visualizations, and strategy development. If your company has the means to do so, I strongly suggest you invest in this product.
  • Data mining from many cloud and on-premises storage systems.
  • Data visualization doesn't need any coding skills or human labor.
  • Provides resources for independent data modeling.
  • There are no native mobile applications for iOS or Android, and it's solely offered via the cloud.
Users are able to make quick, well-informed choices with the help of SAP's augmented analytics and corporate planning tools without needing to collaborate with data scientists.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud helps in bringing together Analytics and Planning along with a major advantage of other SAP applications integration. You can work with multiple different data sources to get an over all better level of insights. There are a variety of Charts and graphs that are intuitive. With SAP environment you can take enterprise wide decisions with ease.
  • Intuitive Charts, graphs and tables preparation
  • Live models creation with help of modeler
  • Data presentation becomes impressive and insightful
  • Models take a lot of time to load
  • If you forget to add a measure or dimension while creatin a model, you have to start all over
  • Drill through metrics should be allowed
You can process huge data sets with millions of data points and perform predictive analytics based on these results. It is a web application, thus it prevents time and cost over runs spent on environment set up and infra costs are cut down. You can connect it with whole ecosystem of SAP applications to get the integrated insights and action points.
Lois M. Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP Analytics Cloud to visualize many regular operational reports. Visualizations and tables give users easy access to deep insights into the underlying data sources and also provide the ability to generate predictions. R integration allows for richer visualizations and some advanced statistical models.
  • It has a superb user interface and also performs well with quicker data on slower CPUs.
  • With SAP Analytic Cloud, you can be confident that your data is always available, no matter where you are.
  • It is the best in terms of package, allowing for simpler exploration, visualization, manipulation, optimization, data access management, and data simulation.
  • Nothing, nothing to complain about, it's efficient in every aspect to assist me perform my job; perhaps the pricing can be toggled to provide more bargains to existing users.
It's a fantastic match for KPIs and dashboards, particularly when the user wishes to arrange tiny chunks of data into narrative parts that are then linked via a single dashboard or landing page. It is also appropriate for mobile phone users because it offers mobile responsive page features. SAP Analytics Cloud is useful for summarizing and producing dashboard visuals in order to swiftly demonstrate performance or convey a specific story.
July 12, 2023

SAC Review

Bob Ogryzek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAC for dashboards connected to ERP (live via HanaViews) and SAC Planning implementation.
  • SAP connection
  • Presentation views
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of use compared to other presentation tools (Tableau)
  • Content Library
SAP Data presentation from ERP. Needs to have better connectivity to Snowflake database.
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